Drawing and Painting of a Skull

March 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments

This is a charcoal drawing and acrylic painting of a skull attached to a skeletal corpse. The artwork was initially sketched in 1998 with black charcoal. Then black, white, and brown acrylic paint was energetically brushed onto the canvas board with a palette knife. The dark colors reflect the morbidity of the subject, and the way the paint colors are pushed, pulled, mixed, scraped, and twisted around the canvas add a tension and unexpected life to the art. The composition of the skull on the skeleton, with eyes slightly above the horizontal midpoint, help suggest that the subject was posing for a portrait.

A variety of stylistic approaches have been applied to other skull drawings, such as this Skull Drawing Still Life, and this Painting of a Skull.

Drawing and Painting of a Skull on a Skeleton Corpse

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1 julite // Oct 6, 2008 at 11:26 am

its as if u can look n2 it eyes.totaly deep.
i luv this panting/drawing.keep it up,any1 who don’t like it don’t understand.
2 MDE-ART.com // Oct 6, 2008 at 1:34 pm

Thanks julite!
3 Desirable504 // Jan 9, 2009 at 2:55 pm

I like this 1 also
4 MDE-ART.com // Jan 13, 2009 at 8:22 am

Thanks, Desirable504!

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